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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 10:19 AM
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Gene studies confirm "out of Africa" theories
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two big genetic studies confirm theories that modern humans evolved in Africa and then migrated through Europe and Asia to reach the Pacific and Americas.


"The one thing that I think we cannot say from this study is that any one person's genome is any healthier or evolutionarily fit than another person's genome," said Carlos Bustamante of Cornell University in New York, who worked on one study.


http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2039522120080220
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